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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.

Christopher Hitchens

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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.
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So there’s nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn’t really believe it, but he thinks it will make him look good to other people. I think it’s the most nauseating spectacle.
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Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.
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Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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The faithful believe that certain truths have been ‘revealed.’ The skeptics and secularists believe that truth is only to be sought by free inquiry and trial and error. Only one of those positions is dogmatic.
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I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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